Pablo Picasso Quotes

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

It takes a long time to become young.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Youth has no age.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

All Children are Artists

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.